HUMANITIES EVENTS

Daryl Baldwin

myaamiaki aancihsaaciki: The Miami Tribe Removal - A Journey of Healing

September 3, 2020
5:00 pm
TBD
Carla Pestana

America's Refugee Origins: 'Pilgrim' Migration and the Making of a National Myth

September 24, 2020
7:00 pm
TBD
Bonnie Jo Campbell

"Mothers, Tell Your Daughters"

October 14, 2020
7:00 pm
Noah Isenberg

Hitler’s Refugees and the Hollywood Screen

October 15, 2020
5:00 pm
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January 2020

23
The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities

February 2020

3
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
12
What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?
12
Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery
12
American Cultures Seminar
12
We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King
12
What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?
17
Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera
24
Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey
25
The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall: Lecture by Wil Haygood
26
And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism
26
"Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in Unusual Time & Unlikely Place Made Extraordinary History" Documentary Premier
27
Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization
27
Anthropology Day Lecture: Why Anthropology Matters Now
28
Lessons in Drag: An Evening with LaWhore Vagistan
28
Racialized Animacy: Thinking Affective Injustice through Bergson

March 2020

1
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2020
2
Russia and Ukraine: Lecture by Tim Model
2
Puff Lecture: Solving America's Hunger Crisis
3
The Inhumanities: Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff
3
Book Talk with Jason Rezaian
3
Discourses of Ukranian Nationhood Before and After 2014
3
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 1
4
“Approaching Extinction, Contesting Extinction” Symposium Day 2
4
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 2
4
Contesting Extinction: Toward a Praxis of Language Reclamation
4
MakeHERspace
5
We Can End Homelessness (But Not if We Keep Acting Like This)
5
Willeke Lecture: Climate Justice
6
Stunt-double Spanish: Using Puppets for Language Learning and Community Outreach
9
Russia and the Baltics: Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte
9
Dr. Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind
9
Through the Agency of Words: 19th Century Women, Lunacy, and Literacy
10
Digital Storytelling Three Day Facilitator Training
10
What the L: Language Research at Miami
11
CANCELLED: Voices: Gentrification and Oral History
11
CANCELLED: Everyday Corruption in Russia: Lessons from the Soviet Past
12
POSTPONED: Race and Temporality: From Newtonian Blackness to Quantum Diasporic Spacetimes
12
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Michelle Wright
12
Digital Storytelling and Social Change
12
Women's Journeys, Women's Voices
12
CANCELLED: Abortion and Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania, 1945-1989
12
The Power of Our Story
12
Starting a FYRE (Course): Introducing First-Year Students to Undergraduate Research (FYRE seminar series part 2 of 3)
13
CANCELLED: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 1
13
CANCELLED: Book Reading and Discussion: Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
14
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 2
16
CANCELLED: 30 Years of Independence: A Discussion with Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania
17
CANCELLED: Robin James: The Sonic Episteme
18
CANCELLED: Leveraging the Research on Mindset to Improve Students' Learning
19
POSTPONED: Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: The Conspiracy Against Men

April 2020

1
CANCELLED: The Trans* Archive in Brazil:  An Archeology of Activism, Creativity, and Transgression
2
POSTPONED: Enduring Time: On Waiting, Care, and Crisis
2
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Lisa Baraitser
6
POSTPONED: Digital Humanities Symposium
6
CANCELLED: Russia and Outer Space: Lecture by Andrew Jenks
6
CANCELLED: I Can Carry You: Destigmatizing Mental Health
6
CANCELLED: Women and Islam: Unity and Diversity in a Global Tradition
7
CANCELLED: Documentary Film and Q&A: Warsaw: A City Divided
9
CANCELLED: When Women Won the Right to Vote:  A History Unfinished
10
CANCELLED: Kant on Friendship: A Colloquium Series Lecture
14
CANCELLED: Making Schools Safe for Students Who Wear Visible Religious Dress
15
CANCELLED: Lost and Found in the Archives
15
CANCELLED: Wickenden Lecture
16
CANCELLED: Stalking Time
17
CANCELLED: The Marianne D. McComb Conference in Creative Writing
20
CANCELLED: Russia and China: Lecture by Hilary Appel
27
CANCELLED: Russia and the Arctic: Lecture by Robert Orttung
29
CANCELLED: The Mystery of Voluntary Obligations
29
CANCELLED: American Cultures Seminar
30
CANCELLED: Short Term

May 2020

1
CANCELLED: Melting Time, Volatile Pasts, and Vaporous History
1
COVID Temporality: The 2019-2020 Geoffrion Family Fellows Symposium
7
CANCELLED: Rachel Levitsky Reading

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